Furniture-brace.



C. M. DEADWYLER.

FURNITURE BRACE.

APPLICATION FILED 001.4. 1918.

1,29%330a Patented Mar. 18,1919.

7 ATTORNEYS CARL M. DEADWYLER, 0F DAYTON, OHIO.

FURNITURE-BRACE.

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Application filed October 4, 1918.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL M. DEADWYLER, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in F urniture-Braces, of which the following is a specification.

The present invent-ion relates to furniture braces and more particularly to the type for drawing together the four corners of a furniture structure such as a bed frame, chair, or the like, so that all looseness in the joints of the structure is eliminated, an object of this invention being to provide a tightening device which .will be so engaged by the brace wiresthat a slipping of the wires on the device will be permitted without any cutting of such wires, thus enabling the wires to be subjected to greater tensile strains. Another object of the invention is to provide a construction which will permit the use of either two wires, each of which has a slipping connection on the tightener, or the use of three or four wires with such slipping action, and all without producing any cutting of the wires. Another object of the invention is to provide an anchoring device for securing the ends of the wires to an upright, such as a corner post, such anchoring device being adjustable to connect with corner posts of different diameters.

To these and other ends, the invention consists of certain parts and combinations of parts all of which will be hereinafter described, the novel features being pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a plan view of a metal bed frame equipped with the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a detail View of a yoke of the tightening device, showing one wire con nected to such yoke;

Fig. 3 is a detail view of a yoke of the tightening device, showing two wires connected to such yoke;

Fig. 4 is a detail view of one of the yokes looking in the direction of the aXis of the screw secured to such yoke;

Fig. 5 is a view of the under side of the yoke with the wires removed;

Fig. 6 is a side view of one of the yokes with the wires removed;

Fig. 7 is a section on the line 7-7, Fig. 8, through one of the anchoring devices;

Fig. 8 is a side elevation of one of the an- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 18, 1919.

Serial No. 256,848.

chpiring devices attached to a corner post; an

Fig. 9 is a detail perspective view of one part of the anchoring devices.

In the embodiment of the invention shown, three brace wires 1, 2 and 3 are employed, the first two being connected to one of the yokes of the tightening devices, while the other brace wire is connected to the other yoke of the tightening device. It is apparent, however, that both yokes may have only one wire connected to each of them, or two wires connected to each of them. In metal bedsteads in particular it is desirable to employ only one brace wire for each yoke, as the heavy box-like spring and mat-tress sag at their sides near the center and will rest upon the brace wires if the latter are connected to the sides of the bed frame. In wooden bedsteads, however, the sides of the bed frame will bend outwardly under the tension produced by the tightening device, and it is desirable to restrain this outward bending b connecting the brace wires to the sides. When two wires are used, as shown in the illustrated embodiment, at one end of the bed, each of said wires is secured at one end to an anchoring device 4, such as an eye on the side 5 of the bed frame, while the other end is secured to an anchoring device attached to the corner post. Any suitable anchoring device may be employed, but it is preferred to use anchOIing devices forming one of the features of this invention, such anchoring device being especially adapted for use on the corner post of metal bedsteads.

The improved anchoring device in this illustrated embodiment comprises a. hook 6 or other brace wire securing means projecting from a wedge-shaped portion 7 having a portion 8 which projects from opposite sides of the wedge portion 7, and has at its opposite edges laterally-turned portions 10 spaced from the side face of the wedge portion 7 to provide pockets. Flanges 11 also project from the under side of the ,wedge portion 7 to form rests for a clamping member which is received within the pockets formedby the flanges .10. The clamping member embodies two converging side walls 12 connected by a wall 13, the convergence of these side walls corresponding to the taper of the .wedge portion 7 so that when the side walls 12 are supported upon the rests 11 they will be connected above the tapered portion 7 by the-oonnecting wall 13. This clamping member serves to firmly hold a flexible strip or tape 14 to the anchoring device and about the corner posts 9. To this end the ends of the tape or strip 14 are extended over the laterally-turned portions lO on oppositesides of the abutting ortion 8, then around the proximate ends 0 the converging walls 12 of the clamping member, then over the anchoring faces of said walls between such .walls and the wedge portion 7, and then about the opposite ends of the walls 12 and over the outer faces of said walls, so as to lie between the latter and the laterallyturned portions 10, which merely act to cover and not to clamp the strip. With this arrangement the ends of the tape or anchoring strip 14 are firmly secured to the anchoring device. The clamping'member 12 may be readily disconnected from or connected to the hook carrying portion of the. anchoring device by moving the clamping member outwardly with relation to said hook carrymg device. The clamping member and hook carrying device are normally held together against accidental displacement when tension is. on the strip 14 by an overhanging lip 15 which projects from the abutting portion 8 and cobperates with the upper surface of the connecting wall adjacent said abutting portion. When this tension is removed, suflicient looseness in the par-ts permits the clamping member to move outwardly on hook carrying device to be freed from the overhanging lip. It is apparent that the tape or strip 14 may be made of any suitable length and in this way the anchoring device is adapted for corner posts of different diameters.

The tightening device in this instance comprises two yoke members each of which may have a screw portion in the form of a screw threaded stem 16 projecting therefrom, the screw portions of the two members being right and left and being connected by a turnbuckle 17 iWhlCll, when turned in one direction, brings the yoke members together, and when turned in the other d1- rection tends to separate the yoke members.

Of course, any other suitable means may be employed for connecting the yoke members.

Each yoke member, in this instance, is so formed that either one or two wires may be engaged with such member. It is apparent, however, that the invention is not limited to a construction which will permit the use of either one or two wires with the yoke member, but that it is within the scope of this invention to provide a yoke construction with vwhich only one brace wire may be connected. When only one wire is used, as shown at the left hand side of Fig. 1, such wire enters into contact with the yoke member at one side of said member and maintains such contact until it issues from the yoke member at the opposite side. This result is secured by providing a groove having diverging end portions 18 which lie in one plane, and are connected together at their proximate ends by groove portions .which project from or he to one side of the plane of the diverging groove portions. These connecting groove portions embody a curved portion 19, the plane of such curve being substantially parallel to the plane of the diverging groove portions 18, and the concave side of such groove portion 19 being disposed toward the eonverging ends of the diverging groove portions 18, the ends of said portion 19 being connected with such converging ends by two groove portions 20.

These groove portions 20 are also curved portion 20, dowmvardly through such portion 20 to th other diverging groove portion 18, and through and out of the latter. To adapt the yoke member for connection with two wires, as shown at the right hand side of Fig. 1, the yoke member is provided with a groove portion 21 which connects the two groove portions 20. With this arrangement, a wire 1 or 2 entering the outer end of the groove portion 18 will pass through said groove portion and into the groove portion 20, and finally roceed from the yoke at the opposite side 0 said groove portion 20. The other brace wire will enter the opposite groove portion 18 and also enter into the groove portion 20. to one side of the first named .wire proceeding from the yoke member in the opposite direction.

From the foregoing it will be seen that there has been provided an anchoring device which will permit the brace wires to be readily connected to corner osts of beds or other furniture of different diameters. A tightening device is employed which has its yoke member so formed that no sharp corners are provided which will tend to cut the brace wires. The brace wires have a long and extended bearing upon the tightening device, and the wire receiving grooves are so formed that each yoke may have either one or two wires connected thereto.

lVhat I claimas my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. tightening yoke for furniture braces comprlslng a head formed with a wire-rece ving groove having diverging portions lying in one plane, and portions connecting the diverging portions and lying to one side of the plane of said diverging portions.

2. A tightening yoke for furniture braces comprising a head formed with a Wire-receiving groove having diverging portions lying in one plane, a curved portion lying to one side of the plane of the diverging portions with its plane parallel with the plane of the diverging portions, and curved portions connecting the first named curved portions with the diverging portions.

3. A tightening yoke for furniture braces comprising a head formed with a wire-receiving groove having diverging portions lyingin one plane, a curved portion lying to one side of the plane of the diverging portions with its plane parallel with the plane of the diverging portions, two grooved portions between the ends of the first-named curved portion and the diverging portions, said head also having a wire receiving groove connecting the last two named grooved portions.

t-In a furniture brace, a tightening yoke havinga head formed with a wire-receiving groove provided with diverging port-ions lying in one plane, and portions connecting the proximate ends of said diverging portions and lying to one side of the plane of said diverging portions, combined with a brace-wire extending through said groove and bearing against the yoke member from one end of the groove to the other.

A tightening yoke for furniture braces comprising a head formed with two diverging grooved portions and two grooved portions connecting proximate ends of said diverging grooved portions', one of said connecting grooved portions lying substantially in the plane of the diverging grooved portions and the other of said connecting grooved portions lying to one side of the wires to furniture comprising a brace wire securing means, a wedge shaped portion on said brace wire securing means, a clamp for cooperation with said wedge shaped port-ion, and a flexible strip for passing about the furniture, held between the wedge-shaped, 5Q

portion and the clamp.

7. An anchoring device for securing brace wires to furniture comprising a brace wire securing means, a wedge shaped portion on said brace wire securlng means, flanges projecting from opposite sides of the wedge shaped portion, a clamp arranged to cooperate with' the wedge shaped portion, and astrip for passing about the furniture, having its ends arranged between the wedge 0 shaped portion and the clamp.

8. An anchoring device for securing brace wires to furniture comprising a brace wire securing means, a wedge shaped portion, a

portion projecting beyond the sides of the 5 wedge shaped portion and having laterallyturned converging portions at opposite sides spaced from the wedge shaped portion, a clamp formed of two converging walls araflged to cooperate with the wedge shaped portion and adapted to enter the space between said wedge shaped portion and the laterally-turned converging portions, and a flexible strip having its ends lying between the clamping member and the wedge shaped portion and also between said clamping member and said laterally-turned convergmg portions.

CARL M. DEADWYLER. 

